Dwarf to low shrubs, 0.5-1 m tall. Branches glabrous, without spines, when young subquadrate or usually with 8 alternately thick and thin longitudinal ridge lines, becoming 4-angled and yellow. Petiole of developed leaves 1.5-5 mm, glabrous; leaf blade drying stiffly papery, narrowly lanceolate, narrowly elliptic, linear-lanceolate, elliptic, or lanceolate-elliptic, 5-14 × 0.5-3 cm, glabrous throughout or sometimes sparsely puberulent to hispidulous adaxially, base acute to cuneate, margins flat and entire or irregularly serrulate, apex acute to acuminate; midrib thinly prominulous adaxially; secondary veins 5-9 pairs; stipules caducous, interpetiolar, triangular to spatulate, 0.5-1 mm, glabrous, acute to glandular-fimbriate. Inflorescences glabrous. Pedicels 2-5 mm. Calyx glabrous; hypanthium portion turbinate, 1.2-1.5 mm; limb ca. 1 mm, lobed for ca. 1/2; lobes triangular. Corolla white, glabrous outside; tube 6-8 mm; lobes triangular, 2-2.5 mm. Drupes oblate, ca. 4 × 6 mm. Fl. Jan-Apr, Oct, fr. Jan, Jun, Oct-Nov.
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